ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Robert "LaVoy" Finicum lived a cowboy's life in Arizona before becoming the spokesman for the takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge, but years before that he worked as an apartment manager in the Portland area.

A memorial service is scheduled for him in Utah on Friday, Feb. 5.

Finicum, 54, was shot and killed during a traffic stop by police in Oregon last week as leaders of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation traveled to John Day for a meeting. Records and interviews show he also spent several years in Oregon decades earlier.

In 1983, when Finicum was in his early 20s, he married his first wife, Kelly.

She had grown up on Portland's east side during the 1960s and 70s. The two wed in St. George, Utah and had four children by 1989.

The couple eventually landed in the Portland area, Finicum said in an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive in January. Finicum said that he worked as an apartment manager, and later fixing up derelict 50- to 100-unit buildings to rent out.

Finicum also said in the interview that he managed the Bonnie Brae apartments, a complex in Beaverton.

"Goodness gracious, those are old memories," he said.

A 1989 divorce filing in Clackamas County shows LaVoy Finicum was living at what's currently called the Foxpointe Apartments, a block from Milwaukie's Rex Putnam High School. Finicum in his January interview referred to Foxpointe as one of the apartment buildings he helped rehab.

He moved home to his parents' farm in Arizona in March 1990 and planned to attend college, he wrote in other court papers from the divorce. He remarried in July 1990, he wrote, heading back to Portland with his new wife later that year and staying with a friend while he looked for a new job in property management.

He returned Arizona within a few months.

He went on to work as a rancher living in Cane Beds, Ariz. In 2014, he joined the 2014 protest against federal land management at the ranch belonging to Cliven Bundy and his family in Bunkerville, Nev. Bundy's sons were among key figures identified as leaders of the Oregon occupation in 2016.

When Finicum died in Oregon on Jan. 26, he was a day shy of his 55th birthday. Survivors include his third wife, Jeanette, whom he married in 1994.